动作电影是我最喜欢的类型之一。他们旨在提供一些去看电影的最佳理由：逃避现实和兴奋（如果做得好，那就做得很好）。与说……浪漫喜剧（基本上都是相同的），动作片可能会非常多样化和彼此独特（虽然有些是曲奇切割者），但在一个主要领域：绝大多数动作片（甚至是动作片）比其他类型更多）通常具有男性铅。

许多人坚持认为，拥有女主角的动作电影无法正常工作，您至少可以看到她们的来源。他们会很快指出这样的尝试：

猫女
我亲爱的甜蜜的天堂般的嫩片……这部电影有多可怕？这不仅很糟糕，而且是传奇的糟糕。太糟糕了，我将它放在有史以来最糟糕的电影中。要立即杀死演员职业生涯的任何动力，就需要一部特殊的电影。猫女就是那种特别的！

Aeon Flux
另一部电影是奥斯卡奖女演员，几乎点燃了非自愿的碗动作。虽然不如猫女那么糟糕，但我不记得能够对这部电影的混乱说1件好事。

Electra
应该是一部很棒的电影。詹妮弗·加纳（Jennifer Garner）统治着我的裤子中的神秘土地，我真的很喜欢她在夜魔侠。他们对这部电影的想法完全超出了我。

Ultraviolet
超大。我不知道为什么有些人坚持这样的错误观念，即米拉·乔沃维奇（Milla Jovovich）有可能在任何事情上变得善良。哦，当然，她曾经是一部很棒的电影（第五个元素），但是在一部很棒的电影中，在电影中表现出色是两个截然不同的事情。她的“生化危机”电影也很糟糕……但不像这部电影那样糟糕。

是的,电影这样的污染our movie theaters (Al Gore should look into this) you can forgive some people for jumping to the radical conclusion that women in action films just can never work. But after you get past the knee jerk reaction and really start to think about it, you start to remember that there are several examples where female leads really did work in films. Projects like:

Aliens
This film needs to be at least mentioned in any conversation about “best action films of all time”. Heart pounding, exciting… and I swear the term “keeps you on the edge of your seat” was originally made up to describe this flat out awesome movie. Ripley rules.

Tomb Raider
No, this movie wasn’t great (or even good really) but you can’t deny that Laura Croft as a female action lead does indeed work. Everything about her just screams “bad ass” and yet still sexy as hell. If there was a female equivalent to Indiana Jones, Laura Croft would be it.

杀死比尔
我从未看过一部电影，一个正常的（无胜任的）女人四处走动，从男人身上踢出了生活的废话。乌玛·瑟曼（Uma Thurman）在这些电影中的角色也有一些特别之处……即使是动作明星。

地狱
Kind of like the situation with Tomb Raider, some people don’t really like Underworld (I did, but not so much the second one), but again you can’t discount how effective Kate Beckinsale’s character was as an action lead in the film. She just worked.

So while I agree that finding action films with female leads that actually work is rare, the above examples prove that it CAN work. It’s not impossible. Perhaps the above movies are exceptions to the rule, but they’re enough to prove you can’t just discount an action film just because it has a female lead in it.

But the cold hard reality is that the vast majority of action films with women in the leads don’t do well at the box office. Even out of the examples above, only Tomb Raider actually made over $100 million at the box office. So the question I pose is this: If we’ve proven that action films with female leads can work, why don’t they have much success at the box office?

I’m sure there will be lots of various answers to that question, but for now I’d like to propose a few observations about why these action films with women leads don’t do well (Please note, I’m suggest why they DON’T do well… not why they SHOULDN’T do well)

1）男性无法认同女性领导者
It doesn’t take a pulitzer prize winner to point out that “men and women are different” Duh! But it’s a point that is particularly relevant when it comes to this question. We often find ourselves attached and invested in film characters that we either identify with or aspire to be. For men, that’s a hard sell with female characters. Add to that the fact that the audience for the Action genre is predominately male, and the point become even more relevant.

2）可信度
我记得很多关于“查理的天使”的讨论，围绕着很多男人抱怨说：“对不起，但是我该如何进入这样的电影？棍子不可能（当时他们在谈论卡梅隆·迪亚兹（Cameron Diaz））可以带我打架。”那是牙医吗？也许……但是，这仍然是为什么许多男人不喜欢女性主角动作片的根源。I can raise the objection that “Movies aren’t always supposed to be about believability… as a matter of fact, quite often it’s supposed to be about the suspension of believability” and I’d be 100% correct, but it wouldn’t change the fact that men have a hard time (for right or wrong reasons) buying into a female character kicking a lot of male character ass. Women in prison movies on the other hand is a totally different story.

3) We’re Conditioned To See Women For Their Sexuality And Intelligence In Film
Follow me here. I liken this point to things like black and white films or subtitled films. I think one of the reasons people don’t give subtitled films more of a chance is because it’s just not what they’re used to. People aren’t accustomed to having to read the dialog (even though it’s the easiest thing in the world) and so they pass on some magnificent films. I think in the movies we’ve become conditioned to see female characters just in terms of their sexuality (this is age old) or their intelligence (this is new… but at least a step in the right direction). Seeing female characters as tough or bad ass… ready willing and able to kick your ass at a moments notice is just outside of what we’re accustomed to seeing or processing. At most we’re used to seeing women as the damsel in distress or as the love interest in action films… not participating in the whopass party.

所以你有它。我的一些理论为什么女性主导动作电影没有成功。你同意他们吗？不同意他们？您是否对为什么这些电影（其中有些很棒）不吸引更多观众有更多想法？